{"id":953,"date":"2005-12-18T18:34:23","date_gmt":"2005-12-18T22:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2005\/12\/18\/last-stewardess-update\/"},"modified":"2005-12-18T18:34:23","modified_gmt":"2005-12-18T22:34:23","slug":"last-stewardess-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2005\/12\/18\/last-stewardess-update\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Pre-Holiday Stewardess! Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re here because you read about my &#8220;near-professional literary site&#8221; in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/12\/18\/books\/review\/18paul.html?ex=1292562000&amp;en=85d514a441b902b3&amp;ei=5090&amp;partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss\">Pamela Paul&#8217;s <I>NYTBR<\/I> back-pager on blogs<\/A>, welcome! Usually, I would be writing about other writers, including the ones that I&#8217;m reading, but because I&#8217;m also the author of the recently published <A href=\"http:\/\/www.beatrice.com\/1970s\"><I>The Stewardess Is Flying the Plane!<\/I><\/A>, lately I&#8217;ve been telling readers what&#8217;s new with that.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bndisplay.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beatrice.com\/bndisplay.jpg\" width=\"135\" height=\"240\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" \/>This weekend, for example, I was so thrilled to discover my book in the very front of the Union Square Barnes &#038; Noble, on a table specifically designated for &#8220;Gifts for the Holidays&#8221; that I whipped out the cameraphone and took the photo at left. And this was right after I&#8217;d spent a delightful afternoon hanging out at Nat Sherman signing copies of the book for a few folks who dropped by. Early on I got to introduce <A href=\"http:\/\/www.leoraskolkinsmith.com\/\">Leora Skolkin-Smith<\/A>, who&#8217;s written <A href=\"http:\/\/www.beatrice.com\/archives\/001653.html\">a guest essay for <I>Beatrice<\/I><\/A>, to <A href=\"http:\/\/jessicacutleronline.com\/\">Jessica Cutler<\/A> and <A href=\"http:\/\/www.laurencerand.com\">Lauren Cerand<\/A>, then <A href=\"http:\/\/www.dawnraffel.com\/bio.htm\">Dawn Raffel<\/A> took a break from finishing her next book to drop in and say hello. Later, I snagged a few chairs in the walk-in humidor and unwound with <A href=\"http:\/\/www.swinkmag.com\/tippens.html\">Elizabeth Tippens<\/A> and <A href=\"http:\/\/vickyoliver.com\/\">Vicky Oliver<\/A>. And, yes, I did note that I had a signing in a cigar shop and the only folks who came by were women writers&#8230; (Well, there was one gentleman who came to see me, but he was in the company of <A href=\"http:\/\/girlynyc.blogspot.com\/\">another blogger<\/A>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re here because you read about my &#8220;near-professional literary site&#8221; in Pamela Paul&#8217;s NYTBR back-pager on blogs, welcome! Usually, I would be writing about other writers, including the ones that I&#8217;m reading, but because I&#8217;m also the author of the recently published The Stewardess Is Flying the Plane!, lately I&#8217;ve been telling readers what&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}